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Video: The worst film of 2012?

You think you’ve seen the worst film of 2012? Take a look at the worst box-office performer of the year, which grossed … $117. No, not $117 million, or $117,000, but one hundred and seventeen dollars. The Ghastly Love Of Johnny X somehow missed your local theaters despite song-and-dance numbers and a $2 million budget:

This looks like John Waters-meets-Ed Wood, and not in a good way. And if you can’t rely on Paul Williams and the late Kevin McCarthy to bring box-office power, well, I just don’t know if the world is worth enduring any more.

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One showing in one theater? I worked in a theater years ago and we had a mercy rule of sorts. If fewer than so many people showed up, we gave them a refund and a ticket for a future showing and closed shop. Didn’t happen often, mostly bad weather days but at some point it’s not worth firing up the projector.

That’s a 117 more dollars than “Innocence of Muslims” made and the film maker isn’t in an American jail for offending Islam and embarrassing America in front of their Saudi “friends”. So which is the worst movie now?